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Last Update:

Oct 01, 2024

Document revisions

Date	Revision	Description	Author
18/07/03	1.0	Initial Version	M. Ounsy
06/10/03	2.0	Extension of the “Getting Started” paragraph	A. Buteau/M. Ounsy
14/10/03	3.0	Added Exception Handling paragraph	M. Ounsy
13/06/05	4.0	Ported to Latex, added events, AttributeProxy and ApiUtil	V. Forchì
13/06/05	4.1	fixed bug with python 2.5 and and state events new Database constructor	V. Forchì
15/01/06	5.0	Added Device Server classes	E.Taurel
15/03/07	6.0	Added AttrInfoEx, AttributeConfig events, 64bits, write_attribute	T. Coutinho
21/03/07	6.1	Added groups	T. Coutinho
15/06/07	6.2	Added dynamic attributes doc	E. Taurel
06/05/08	7.0	Update to Tango 6.1. Added DB methods, version info	T. Coutinho
10/07/09	8.0	Update to Tango 7. Major refactoring. Migrated doc	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
24/07/09	8.1	Added migration info, added missing API doc	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
21/09/09	8.2	Added migration info, release of 7.0.0beta2	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
12/11/09	8.3	Update to Tango 7.1.	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
??/12/09	8.4	Update to PyTango 7.1.0 rc1	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
19/02/10	8.5	Update to PyTango 7.1.1	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
06/08/10	8.6	Update to PyTango 7.1.2	T. Coutinho
05/11/10	8.7	Update to PyTango 7.1.3	T. Coutinho
08/04/11	8.8	Update to PyTango 7.1.4	T. Coutinho
13/04/11	8.9	Update to PyTango 7.1.5	T. Coutinho
14/04/11	8.10	Update to PyTango 7.1.6	T. Coutinho
15/04/11	8.11	Update to PyTango 7.2.0	T. Coutinho
12/12/11	8.12	Update to PyTango 7.2.2	T. Coutinho
24/04/12	8.13	Update to PyTango 7.2.3	T. Coutinho
21/09/12	8.14	Update to PyTango 8.0.0	T. Coutinho
10/10/12	8.15	Update to PyTango 8.0.2	T. Coutinho
20/05/13	8.16	Update to PyTango 8.0.3	T. Coutinho
28/08/13	8.13	Update to PyTango 7.2.4	T. Coutinho
27/11/13	8.18	Update to PyTango 8.1.1	T. Coutinho
16/05/14	8.19	Update to PyTango 8.1.2	T. Coutinho
30/09/14	8.20	Update to PyTango 8.1.4	T. Coutinho
01/10/14	8.21	Update to PyTango 8.1.5	T. Coutinho
05/02/15	8.22	Update to PyTango 8.1.6	T. Coutinho
03/02/16	8.23	Update to PyTango 8.1.8	T. Coutinho
12/08/16	8.24	Update to PyTango 8.1.9	V. Michel
26/02/16	9.2.0a	Update to PyTango 9.2.0a	T. Coutinho
15/08/16	9.2.0	9.2.0 Release	V. Michel
23/01/17	9.2.1	9.2.1 Release	V. Michel
27/09/17	9.2.2	9.2.2 Release	G. Cuni/V. Michel/J. Moldes
30/05/18	9.2.3	9.2.3 Release	V. Michel
30/07/18	9.2.4	9.2.4 Release	V. Michel
28/11/18	9.2.5	9.2.5 Release	A. Joubert
13/03/19	9.3.0	9.3.0 Release	T. Coutinho
08/08/19	9.3.1	9.3.1 Release	A. Joubert
30/04/20	9.3.2	9.3.2 Release	A. Joubert
24/12/20	9.3.3	9.3.3 Release	A. Joubert
14/06/22	9.3.4	9.3.4 Release	A. Joubert
07/09/22	9.3.5	9.3.5 Release	Y. Matveev
28/09/22	9.3.6	9.3.6 Release	Y. Matveev
15/02/23	9.4.0	9.4.0 Release	A. Joubert
15/03/23	9.4.1	9.4.1 Release	A. Joubert
27/07/23	9.4.2	9.4.2 Release	Y. Matveev
23/11/23	9.5.0	9.5.0 Release	A. Joubert
28/03/24	9.5.1	9.5.1 Release	A. Joubert
01/10/24	10.0.0	10.0.0 Release	A. Joubert

Version history

Version	Changes
10.0.0	10.0.0 release. Changed: !646: New Asyncio servers implementation !648: PyTango switched to require C++17 when building !654: Redirect server run errors to stderr instead of stdout !659: Improve command arg type errors !663: Switch to cppTango 10.0.0 and add Device_6Impl !664: Use attribute lock ATTR_BY_KERNEL for push_event !631: Improve error message if cannot convert value to DevBoolean type !673: Improve error message if python float value if written to int attribute for python >= 3.10 !681: Release GIL when adding/removing attributes, and add async methods !693: Improve exception info when command execution failed !702: Revert !664 (use attribute lock ATTR_BY_KERNEL for push_event) !725: Remove notifd2db function !735: Remove quality event !737: Fix Database.get_device_attribute_property to mutate input dict Added: !645: Extend pydevd debugging and coverage to dynamic attributes and commands !652: Include stub file in wheels for better autocompletion (e.g., in VSCode) !660: Add alarm event support !667: Enable push events with python exceptions !680: Update NumPy C API usage for 1.x and 2.0 compatibility !686: Add option to set device description, status, state at device init !691: Add “warning” method to tango logger !698: Added DevInfo implementation (IDL 6) !701: Export DeviceImpl.set_attribute_config, add tests for get/set_attribute_config at server side !707: Warn if IDL struct interfaces like AttributeConfig are modified !708: Add OpenTelemetry support for distributed tracing !746: Add support for telemetry exporter ‘none’ Fixed: !633: Fix DeviceProxy asynch attribute access with green modes, fix write_attribute(s)_reply push model !649: Fix high-level attribute read for asyncio DeviceProxies !662: Fix Segfault in push_archive_event(self, attr_name) with attr_name != state or status !669: Fix *_asynch methods on DeviceProxy !672: Fix db.delete_device_attribute_property() if was called with several attributes !674: Fix typing compatibility with numpy 1.20 !677: Fix class_property inheritance in high-level Device !679: Resolve “Tango-Server crashes on Restart Command” !699: Add typing support of DevVarLongStringArray, DevVarDoubleStringArray !714: Fix memory leak in write str attribute !715: Fix psutil DeprecationWarning !727: Fix from_str_to_char leak from attribute name when pushing events !730: Fix DbPutProperty in DataBaseDS (Python implementation) !740: Fix some issues in DatabaseDS (Python implementation) !745: Resolve “_get_listening_tcp_ports in test_context can return wrong port” !752: Fix some more issues in DatabaseDS (Python implementation) !757: Fix even more issues in DatabaseDS (Python implementation) Documentation: !642: Docs: Add note about push_event limitation with async green modes !643: Docs: Fix CSS theme (bullet points, spacing, fonts) !670: Re-organize docs !683: BUILD.md: Add forgotten recurse-submodules for clone !687: Docs: fix typos in client and server tutorials !697: Docs: Rename Advanced to How-to guides !716: Docs: Prepare for 10.0.0rc1 !734: Docs: update for 10.0.0rc2 release !747: Docs: update for 10.0.0rc3 release !754: Docs: update for 10.0.0rc4 release !756: Docs: add information about DatabaseDS (Python implementation) !758: Docs: update for 10.0.0 release, remove .devcontainer DevOps and code maintenance changes: !640: CI: show Python and C++ stack trace if test segfaulted !641: TangoCMakeModules: Add it to standardise build process !644: ext/precompiled_header.hpp: Remove warnings about deprecated boost headers !650: set target_compile_features to c++17 !651: Fix client default info repr test with cppTango v10 !653: Add simple tests for SQLite3 database (including some fixes) !655: Fix pipeline for test sqlite database !658: Bump cpptango ver to 10.0.0dev0 in CI !665: Simplify Device_XImpl C++ code !666: Fix PyTango tests fail after TangoTest!52 !668: Update Linux wheel Docker image to 1.6.0.dev1 for TangoTest echo_mode !678: Skip test_async_exception_in_callback !682: Add more pre-commit hooks and fix various found issues !685: Rename TestDevice to DeviceToTest in test_database.py !695: Updated TangoCMakeModules to the current head !696: Add a manual task to run tests against specific branches !700: CI: Cache pre-commit installation !703: CI: Update Linux wheel Docker image to 1.6.0.dev2, and TangoTest !704: Fix test_device_set_attr_config !705: Fix gitlab-triage job !707: CI update !709: Add pixi as alternative to develop locally !710: CI update !711: Update pixi.lock (cpptango 10.0.0rc1, OpenTelemetry) !712: CI: update to cpptango 10.0.0rc1 !713: Build against NumPy 2.0 by default !717: Include extension debug info, and release additional debug Linux wheels !718: Update Windows and Linux wheels to cppTango 10.0.0rc2 !719: CI: Use cppTango 10.0.0rc2 for sdist tests !720: Bump version to v10.0.0rc1 !721: CI: Make separate Windows and macOS tests manual only !722: Bump 10.0.0dev version !723: CI: Refactor Gitlab CI into multiple files and fix release to pypi job !724: Update pixi.lock for cpptango 10.0.0rc2 !726: Improve cpp code style !728: CI: Fix problems with typing stub generation !731: Add precompiled_header.hpp to target_precompile_headers !732: CI: update to cppTango 10.0.0-rc3 !733: CI: update pixi to cppTango 10.0.0-rc3 !736: CI: update to cppTango 10.0.0-rc4 !739: CI: Add basic valgrind test !741: CI: Add sphinx-lint to pre-commit !743: CI: Replace “build” conda package with “python-build” !744: CI: update to cppTango 10.0.0-rc5 !746: CI: fixed mixed server (TangoTest.so) test and minor CI issues !748: CI: Use PyPI Trusted Publisher !751: CI: update to cppTango 10.0.0-rc6 !753: CI: add one retry of failed tests !755: CI: update to cpptango 10.0.0 and TangoTest 3.10 More details in the full changelog 9.5.1…10.0.0
9.5.1	9.5.1 release. Backports: !688: 9.5.x maintenance: Backport MRs 631, 644, 645, 664, 673, 674, 677 Changed: !684: 9.5.x maintenance: restrict NumPy to 1.x for 9.5.1 release Backport !631: Improve error message if cannot convert value to DevBoolean type Backport !645: Extend pydevd debugging and coverage to dynamic attributes and commands Backport !673: Improve error message if python float value if written to int attribute for python >= 3.10 Fixed: Backport !644: Fix high-level attribute read for asyncio DeviceProxies Backport !664: Use attribute lock ATTR_BY_KERNEL for push_event (fix a crash with asyncio green modes) Backport !674: Fix typing compatibility with numpy 1.20 Backport !677: Fix class_property inheritance in high-level Device Documentation: !689: 9.5.x maintenance: update docs and migration guide for 9.5.1-rc1 !690: 9.5.x maintenance: update docs bump for 9.5.1 More details in the full changelog 9.5.0…9.5.1
9.5.0	9.5.0 release. Changed: !558: Check if user’s class methods are coroutines in Async mode !614: Require cppTango 9.5.0, bump to 9.5.0.dev0, doc fixes !617: Use 127.0.0.1 as default TestContext host instead of external IP Added: !388: Enable short-name access to TestContext devices !568: Declaration of properties, attributes and command type with typing hints !580: IMAGEs support added to set_write_value !581: Support forwarded attributes in TestContext !582: Add support for EncodedAttribute in high-level API device !592: Expose complete API of DeviceImpl.remove_attribute() !616: Support server debugging with PyCharm and VS Code (pydevd) !618: Resolve “Python 3.12 support” Fixed: !591: Handle spaces in Python path in winsetup (Windows only) !600: Fix green_mode bug in TestContext !612: Close socket in get_host_ip() (as used by DeviceTestContext) !625: Ignore gevent when using TestContext if not installed !627: Fix problem if self has a type hint !634: Fix SegFault if set_value was called with None Removed: !602: Remove CmdArgType.DevInt (cppTango DEV_INT) !604: Deprecated signature for WAttribute.get_write_value() removed Documentation: !615: Update docs and migration guide for 9.5.0-rc1 !628: Update docs and bump for 9.5.0rc2 !636: Update docs and bump for 9.5.0rc3 !638: Update docs and bump for 9.5.0 DevOps and code maintenance changes: !569: New build system using cmake !590: Test all wheels as part of default branch CI !596: Bump 9.4.3 dev version !598: Compile TangoTest so test-main-cpptango uses latest cpptango !599: Fix micromamba installation !601: Update triage message !603: Test against cpptango 9.5.0rc2 !605: Solve init hook test error on windows !606: Test against cpptango 9.5.0rc3 !607: CI: Allow numpy without blas when testing Linux i686 wheels !608: Cleanup outdated code !609: Skip more tests on AppVeyor !610: Update cpptango to 9.5.0rc4 !611: Mark test_server_init_hook_subscribe_event_multiple_devices xfail !613: Build against cpptango 9.5.0 !619: Bump pytango-builder image (libzmq-4.3.5 for Linux wheels) !620: Reduce compiler warnings and pin scikit-build-core !621: Change relative imports to absolute and unpin scikit-build-core !622: Update Boost to 1.83.0 for Windows builds !623: CI: Allow numpy without blas when building Linux i686 Py 3.12 wheels !624: Force C++ standard to 14 !629: CI: Add support for zmq 4.3.5 in Windows builds !630: CI: Enable DESY Windows Runner !632: CI: Use latest TangoTest for linux:test-main-cpptango job !635: CI: Update macOS image used More details in the full changelog 9.4.2…9.5.0
9.4.2	9.4.2 release. Features: !578: Add server init hook to high-level and low-level devices !562: Check code coverage !577: Implement new python and NumPy version policy Bug fixes and changes: !551: Handle unsupported DeviceTestContext properties gracefully !556: Fix source location recorded by logging decorators !564: Asyncio server doesn’t change state to ALARM with AttrQuality !557: Fix DevEncoded attributes and commands !565: Raise UnicodeError instead of segfaulting when Latin-1 encoding fails !570: Fix linter problem in winsetup.py !579: Extend “empty string workaround” to sequences for DeviceTestContext properties Doc fixes: !571: Update new build system doc !572: Improve docs for push_data_ready_event and EnsureOmniThread !587: Update docs and bump version for 9.4.2rc1 !595: Fixed history of changes DevOps changes: !563: Skip log location tests in AppVeyor CI !566: Add AppVeyor Windows builds for Python 3.9 to 3.11, Boost 1.82.0 !575: Add job to test main cpptango branch !574: Added test for checking default and non-default units !576: Add macOS wheels + gitlab-ci cleaning !585: Move to cppTango 9.4.2, drop Python<3.9 on Win, update wheel deps !588: Skip failing test in Winodws !593: Test_server_init_hook_subscribe_event_multiple_devices skipped More details in the full changelog 9.4.1…9.4.2
9.4.1	9.4.1 release. Bug fixes and changes: !547: Fix attributes with device inheritance and repeated method wrapping regression in 9.4.0 !548: Fix decorated attribute methods regression in 9.4.0 Doc fixes: !546: Add note about pip version for binary packages !544: Bump version to 9.4.1dev0 !555: Update docs and bump version for 9.4.0rc1 !559: Groom docstrings !560: Bump for 9.4.1 Deprecation fixes: !553: Remove compiler version check from setup.py DevOps changes: !545: Run black on repo and add to pre-commit-config !554: Update to omniorb 4.2.5 for Linux wheels !549: Use new tango-controls group runners !550: Update mambaforge image and use conda instead of apt packages in CI !552: Run gitlab-triage to update old issues/MRs More details in the full changelog 9.4.0…9.4.1
9.4.0	9.4.0 release (not recommended due to significant regressions). Features: !522: Support of non-bound methods for attributes !535: Allow developer to optionally add attributes to a DeviceProxy instance !515: DevEnum spectrum and image attributes support added !502: Provide binary wheels on PyPI using pytango-builder images !510: Added high level API for dynamic attributes !511: Added fisallowed kwarg for static/dynamic commands and is_allowed method for dynamic commands !528: Added getter, read and is_allowed attribute decorators !542: Improve device types autocompletion in IDEs Changes: !490: Drop Python 2.7 and 3.5 support !486: Switch support from cppTango 9.3 to 9.4 !536: Require cppTango>=9.4.1 to import the library !489: Make numpy a hard requirement !493: Improve spectrum and image attribute behaviour with empty lists (breaking change to API!) !492: Change DServer inheritance from Device_4Impl to Device_5Impl !514: Remove Python 2 compatibility code !539: Update CI to cppTango 9.4.1, change default ORBendpoint host to 0.0.0.0, fix tests !541: Workaround cppTango#1055 for DatabaseDS startup Bug fixes: !495: Fix log streams with % and no args !516: Resolve “Crash when writing numpy.array to DeviceProxy string array attributes” !533: Fix high-level enum read exception when quality is ATTR_INVALID Doc fixes: !505: Fix some docs related to Tango.Util !523: Document set_write_value WAttribute method !524: Fixed documentation for DeviceProxy.get_attribute_config_ex !526: Clarify gevent dependency !487: Bump for 9.4.0 !500: Update docs for 9.3 to 9.4 changes !501: Update version for 9.4.0rc1 !507: Update version for 9.4.0rc2 !538: Update version for 9.4.0rc3 !512: Add some more training examples !540: Update docs and bump version for 9.4.0 release Deprecation fixes: !491: Remove unused method CppDeviceClassWrap::delete_class !494: Remove unnecessary constants TANGO_LONG32 and TANGO_LONG64 !497: Replace pytest-xdist with pytest-forked for testing !498: Fix Python 3.11 compatibility !513: Replace deprecated distutils.version !534: Replace deprecated numpy.bool8 alias DevOps changes: !531: Configure unit tests report in gitlab-ci !532: Run ruff via pre-commit !519: Testing: improve error message for event test failures !530: Unnecessary tests removed !496: Force numpy installation with help of pyproject.toml (PEP 518) before build !509: Prefer binary dependencies for test-wheel !508: Allow failure for aarch64 test !488: Add cpptango_rc to the Dockerfile !520: Devcontainer fix for Mac M1 host !525: Git ignore code-workspace and .DS_Store files !499: Disable AppVeyor but keep the config file !503: Disable AppVeyor builds temporarily !504: Update AppVeyor CI for cppTango 9.4.0 !506: Update AppVeyor cppTango 9.4.0.windows1 package !543: Fix readme syntax and add twine check More details in the full changelog 9.3.6…9.4.0
9.3.6	9.3.6 release. Changes: Pull Request #482: Use cpptango 9.3.5 for Widows wheels (except Py27 x64) Bug fixes: Pull Request #477: Resolve “Dynamic attribute in 9.3.5 fails” Pull Request #479: Fix green mode usage from run method kwarg Pull Request #480: Resolve “read-only dynamic attribute with dummy write function fails in 9.3.5”
9.3.5	9.3.5 release. Features: Pull Request #470: Add set_data_ready_event method to Device Changes: Pull Request #471: Fail if mixed green modes used in device server Bug fixes: Pull Request #461: Fix handling of -ORBEndPointX command line options Pull Request #462: Ensure PYTANGO_NUMPY_VERSION is stringized to support newer C++ compilers Pull Request #465: Restore dynamic attribute functionality with unbound methods Pull Request #466: Explicit boost::python::optional template usage to fix compilation with gcc>10 Doc fixes: Pull Request #467: Better MultiDeviceTestContext workaround Pull Request #474: Update documentation for tango.Database DevOps features: Pull Request #473: Make universal dockerfile
9.3.4	9.3.4 release. Changes: Pull Request #430: Raise when setting non-existent DeviceProxy attr Pull Request #444: Add “friendly” argparser for device server arguments (#132, #354) Bug fixes: Pull Request #401: Fix read/write/is_allowed not called for dynamic attribute in async mode server (#173) Pull Request #417: Fix DeviceProxy constructor reference cycle (#412) Pull Request #418: Release GIL in DeviceProxy and AttributeProxy dtor Pull Request #434: Fix Device green_mode usage in MultiDeviceTestContext Pull Request #436: Fix MSVC 9 syntax issue with shared pointer deletion Pull Request #438: Add unit tests for device server logging Pull Request #446: Allow pipes to be inherited by Device subclasses (#439) Deprecation fixes: Pull Request #414: Fix deprecated warning with numpy 1.20 Pull Request #424: tango/pytango_pprint.py: Use correct syntax for comparing object contents Pull Request #425: Fix some and silence some C++ compiler warnings Pull Request #439: Fix asyncio Python 3.10 compatibility (#429) Pull Request #449: Use Py_ssize_t for all CPython indexing Doc fixes: Pull Request #404: Typo on Sphinx documentation (#173) Pull Request #406: Fix docs - missing DbDevExportInfos and DbDevImportInfos Pull Request #420: Fix broken link: no s in gevent Pull Request #422: Uncomment docs of tango.Util.instance() and build docs for other static methods Pull Request #426: [docs] Fixed arguments name when calling command decorator Pull Request #427: [docs] Fixed variables name in a tango.Database.add_server method example Pull Request #429: Add training material examples Pull Request #433: Fix server method in DevEnum example in doc/data_types.rst Pull Request #440: Resolve “Missing methods in Documentation” (#217) Pull Request #442: Invalid escape fix Pull Request #453: Remove docs generation from build Pull Request #454: Debian/Ubuntu installation docs updated Pull Request #455: Update contribution guidelines, drop stable branch DevOps fixes: Pull Request #409: Enable CI/CD in Gitlab (#399) Pull Request #410: Replace github links Pull Request #411: Build and upload source distribution to pypi Pull Request #423: Use numpy parallel compilation if available (#416) Pull Request #428: Gitlab CI image build + push Pull Request #445: Split Gitlab CI caches per job Pull Request #448: Add missing cmake files to sdist
9.3.3	9.3.3 release. Features: Pull Request #378: Add string support for MultiDeviceTestContext devices_info class field Pull Request #384: Add test context support for memorized attributes Pull Request #395: Fix Windows build and add CI test suite (#355, #368, #369) Changes: Pull Request #365: Preserve cause of exception when getting/setting attribute in DeviceProxy (#364) Pull Request #385: Improve mandatory + default device property error message (#380) Pull Request #397: Add std namespace prefix in C++ code Bug/doc fixes: Pull Request #360: Fix convert2array for Unicode to DevVarStringArray (Py3) (#361) Pull Request #386: Fix DeviceProxy repr/str memory leak (#298) Pull Request #352: Fix sphinx v3 warning Pull Request #359: MultiDeviceTestContext example Pull Request #363: Change old doc links from ESRF to RTD Pull Request #370: Update CI to use cppTango 9.3.4rc6 Pull Request #389: Update CI and dev Docker to cpptango 9.3.4 Pull Request #376: Update Windows CI and dev containers to boost 1.73.0 Pull Request #377: VScode remote development container support Pull Request #391: Add documentation about testing Pull Request #393: Fix a typo in get_server_info documentation (#392)
9.3.2	9.3.2 release. Features: Pull Request #314: Add MultiDeviceTestContext for testing more than one Device Pull Request #317: Add get_device_attribute_list and missing pipe methods to Database interface (#313) Pull Request #327: Add EnsureOmniThread and is_omni_thread (#307, #292) Changes: Pull Request #316: Reduce six requirement from 1.12 to 1.10 (#296) Pull Request #326: Add Docker development container Pull Request #330: Add enum34 to Python 2.7 docker images Pull Request #329: Add test to verify get_device_properties called on init Pull Request #341: Build DevFailed origin from format_exception (#340) Bug/doc fixes: Pull Request #301: Fix documentation error Pull Request #334: Update green mode docs and asyncio example (#333) Pull Request #335: Generalise search for libboost_python on POSIX (#300, #310) Pull Request #343: Extend the info on dependencies in README Pull Request #345: Fix power_supply client example PowerOn -> TurnOn Pull Request #347: Fix memory leak for DevEncoded attributes Pull Request #348: Fix dynamic enum attributes created without labels (#56)
9.3.1	9.3.1 release. Changes: Pull Request #277: Windows builds using AppVeyor (#176) Pull Request #290: Update docs: int types maps to DevLong64 (#282) Pull Request #293: Update exception types in proxy docstrings Bug fixes: Pull Request #270: Add six >= 1.12 requirement (#269) Pull Request #273: DeviceAttribute.is_empty not working correctly with latest cpp tango version (#271) Pull Request #274: Add unit tests for spectrum attributes, including empty (#271) Pull Request #281: Fix DevEncoded commands on Python 3 (#280) Pull Request #288: Make sure we only convert to string python unicode/str/bytes objects (#285) Pull Request #289: Fix compilation warnings and conda build (#286)
9.3.0	9.3.0 release. Changes: Pull Request #242: Improve Python version check for enum34 install Pull Request #250: Develop 9.3.0 Pull Request #258: Change Travis CI builds to xenial Bug fixes: Pull Request #245: Change for collections abstract base class Pull Request #247: Use IP address instead of hostname (fix #246) Pull Request #252: Fix wrong link to tango dependency (#235) Pull Request #254: Fix mapping of AttrWriteType WT_UNKNOWN Pull Request #257: Fix some docs and docstrings Pull Request #260: add ApiUtil.cleanup() Pull Request #262: Fix compile error under Linux Pull Request #263: Fix #251: Python 2 vs Python 3: DevString with bytes
9.2.5	9.2.5 release. Changes: Pull Request #212: Skip databaseds backends in PyTango compatibility module Pull Request #221: DevEnum attributes can now be directly assigned labels Pull Request #236: Cleanup db_access module Pull Request #237: Add info about how to release a new version Bug fixes: Pull Request #209 (issue #207): Fix documentation warnings Pull Request #211: Yet another fix to the gevent threadpool error wrapping Pull Request #214 (issue #213): DevEncoded attribute should produce a bytes object in python 3 Pull Request #219: Fixing icons in documentation Pull Request #220: Fix ‘DevFailed’ object does not support indexing Pull Request #225 (issue #215): Fix exception propagation in python 3 Pull Request #226 (issue #216): Add missing converter from python bytes to char* Pull Request #227: Gevent issue #1260 should be fixed by now Pull Request #232: use special case-insensitive weak values dictionary for Tango nodes
9.2.4	9.2.4 release. Changes: Pull Request #194 (issue #188): Easier access to DevEnum attribute using python enum Pull Request #199 (issue #195): Support python enum as dtype argument for attributes Pull Request #205 (issue #202): Python 3.7 compatibility Bug fixes: Pull Request #193 (issue #192): Fix a gevent green mode memory leak introduced in v9.2.3
9.2.3	9.2.3 release. Changes: Pull Request #169: Use tango-controls theme for the documentation Pull Request #170 (issue #171): Use a private gevent ThreadPool Pull Request #180: Use same default encoding for python2 and python3 (utf-8) Bug fixes: Pull Request #178 (issue #177): Make CmdDoneEvent.argout writable Pull Request #178: Add GIL control for ApiUtil.get_asynch_replies Pull Request #187 (issue #186): Fix and extend client green mode
9.2.2	9.2.2 release. Features: Pull Request #104: Pipe Events Pull Request #106: Implement pipe write (client and server, issue #9) Pull Request #122: Dynamic commands Pull Request #124: Add forward attribute Pull Request #129: Implement mandatory property (issue #30) Changes: Pull Request #109: Device Interface Change Events Pull Request #113: Adding asyncio green mode documentation and a how-to on contributing Pull Request #114: Added PEP8-ified files in tango module. Pull Request #115: Commands polling tests (client and server) Pull Request #116: Attribute polling tests (client and server) Pull Request #117: Use official tango-controls conda channel Pull Request #125: Forward attribute example Pull Request #134: Linting pytango (with pylint + flake8) Pull Request #137: Codacy badge in README and code quality policy in How to Contribute Pull Request #143: Added missing PipeEventData & DevIntrChangeEventData Bug fixes: Pull Request #85 (issue #84): Fix Gevent ThreadPool exceptions Pull Request #94 (issue #93): Fix issues in setup file (GCC-7 build) Pull Request #96: Filter badges from the long description Pull Request #97: Fix/linker options Pull Request #98: Refactor green mode for client and server APIs Pull Request #101 (issue #100) check for None and return null string Pull Request #102: Update server tests Pull Request #103: Cache build objects to optimize travis builds Pull Request #112 (issue #111): Use _DeviceClass as tango device class constructor Pull Request #128 (issue #127): Set default worker in server.py Pull Request #135: Better exception handling in server.run and test context (issue #131) Pull Request #142 (issue #142): Added missing PipeEventData & DevIntrChangeEventData Pull Request #148 (issue #144): Expose utils helpers Pull Request #149: Fix return value of proxy.subscribe_event Pull Request #158 (issue #155): Fix timestamp and casing in utils.EventCallback
9.2.1	9.2.1 release. Features: Pull Requests #70: Add test_context and test_utils modules, used for pytango unit-testing Changes: Issue #51: Refactor platform specific code in setup file Issue #67: Comply with PEP 440 for pre-releases Pull Request #70: Add unit-testing for the server API Pull Request #70: Configure Travis CI for continuous integration Pull Request #76: Add unit-testing for the client API Pull Request #78: Update the python version classifiers Pull Request #80: Move tango object server to its own module Pull Request #90: The metaclass definition for tango devices is no longer mandatory Bug fixes: Issue #24: Fix dev_status dangling pointer bug Issue #57: Fix dev_state/status to be gevent safe Issue #58: Server gevent mode internal call hangs Pull Request #62: Several fixes in tango.databaseds Pull Request #63: Follow up on issue #21 (Fix Group.get_device method) Issue #64: Fix AttributeProxy.__dev_proxy to be initialized with python internals Issue #74: Fix hanging with an asynchronous tango server fails to start Pull Request #81: Fix DeviceImpl documentation Issue #82: Fix attribute completion for device proxies with IPython >= 4 Issue #84: Fix gevent threadpool exceptions
9.2.0	9.2.0 release. Features: Issue #37: Add display_level and polling_period as optional arguments to command decorator Bug fixes: Fix cache problem when using DeviceProxy through an AttributeProxy Fix compilation on several platforms Issue #19: Defining new members in DeviceProxy has side effects Fixed bug in beacon.add_device Fix for get_device_list if server_name is ‘*’ Fix get_device_attribute_property2 if prop_attr is not None Accept StdStringVector in put_device_property Map ‘int’ to DevLong64 and ‘uint’ to DevULong64 Issue #22: Fix push_data_ready_event() deadlock Issue #28: Fix compilation error for constants.cpp Issue #21: Fix Group.get_device method Issue #33: Fix internal server documentation Changes: Move ITango to another project Use setuptools instead of distutils Add six as a requirement Refactor directory structure Rename PyTango module to tango (import PyTango still works for backward compatibility) Add a ReST readme for GitHub and PyPI ITango changes (moved to another project): Fix itango event logger for python 3 Avoid deprecation warning with IPython 4.x Use entry points instead of scripts
9.2.0a	9.2 alpha release. Missing: writtable pipes (client and server) dynamic commands (server) device interface change event (client and server) pipe event (client and server) Bug fixes: 776: [pytango][8.1.8] SyntaxError: invalid syntax
8.1.9	Features: PR #2: asyncio support for both client and server API PR #6: Expose AutoTangoMonitor and AutoTangoAllowThreads Bug fixes: PR #31: Get -l flags from pkg-config PR #15: Rename itango script to itango3 for python3 PR #14: Avoid deprecation warning with IPython 4.x
8.1.8	Features: PR #3: Add a run_server class method to Device PR #4: Add device inheritance 110: device property with auto update in database Bug fixes: 690: Description attribute property 700: [pytango] useless files in the source distribution 701: Memory leak in command with list argument 704: Assertion failure when calling command with string array input type 705: Support boost_python lib name on Gentoo 714: Memory leak in PyTango for direct server command calls 718: OverflowErrors with float types in 8.1.6 724: PyTango DeviceProxy.command_inout(<str>) memory leaks 736: pytango FTBFS with python 3.4 747: PyTango event callback in gevent mode gets called in non main thread
8.1.6	Bug fixes: 698: PyTango.Util discrepancy 697: PyTango.server.run does not accept old Device style classes
8.1.5	Bug fixes: 687: [pytango] 8.1.4 unexpected files in the source package 688: PyTango 8.1.4 new style server commands don’t work
8.1.4	Features: 107: Nice to check Tango/PyTango version at runtime Bug fixes: 659: segmentation fault when unsubscribing from events 664: problem while installing PyTango 8.1.1 with pip (using pip 1.4.1) 678: [pytango] 8.1.2 unexpected files in the source package 679: PyTango.server tries to import missing __builtin__ module on Python 3 680: Cannot import PyTango.server.run 686: Device property substitution for a multi-device server
8.1.3	SKIPPED
8.1.2	Features: 98: PyTango.server.server_run needs additional post_init_callback parameter 102: DevEncoded attribute should support a python buffer object 103: Make creation of *EventData objects possible in PyTango Bug fixes: 641: python3 error handling issue 648: PyTango unicode method parameters fail 649: write_attribute of spectrum/image fails in PyTango without numpy 650: [pytango] 8.1.1 not compatible with ipyton 1.2.0-rc1 651: PyTango segmentation fault when run a DS that use attr_data.py 660: command_inout_asynch (polling mode) fails 666: PyTango shutdown sometimes blocks.
8.1.1	Features: Implemented tango C++ 8.1 API Bug fixes: 527: set_value() for ULong64 573: [pytango] python3 error with unregistered device 611: URGENT fail to write attribute with PyTango 8.0.3 612: [pytango][8.0.3] failed to build from source on s390 615: Threading problem when setting a DevULong64 attribute 622: PyTango broken when running on Ubuntu 13 626: attribute_history extraction can raised an exception 628: Problem in installing PyTango 8.0.3 on Scientific Linux 6 635: Reading of ULong64 attributes does not work 636: PyTango log messages are not filtered by level 637: [pytango] segfault doing write_attribute on Group
8.1.0	SKIPPED
8.0.3	Features: 88: Implement Util::server_set_event_loop method in python Bug fixes: 3576353: [pytango] segfault on ‘RestartServer’ 3579062: [pytango] Attribute missing methods 3586337: [pytango] Some DeviceClass methods are not python safe 3598514: DeviceProxy.__setattr__ break python’s descriptors 3607779: [pytango] IPython 0.10 error 598: Import DLL by PyTango failed on windows 605: [pytango] use distutils.version module
8.0.2	Bug fixes: 3570970: [pytango] problem during the python3 building 3570971: [pytango] itango does not work without qtconsole 3570972: [pytango] warning/error when building 8.0.0 3570975: [pytango] problem during use of python3 version 3574099: [pytango] compile error with gcc < 4.5
8.0.1	SKIPPED
8.0.0	Features: Implemented tango C++ 8.0 API Python 3k compatible Bug fixes: 3023857: DevEncoded write attribute not supported 3521545: [pytango] problem with tango profile 3530535: PyTango group writting fails 3564959: EncodedAttribute.encode_xxx() methods don’t accept bytearray
7.2.4	Bug fixes: 551: [pytango] Some DeviceClass methods are not python safe
7.2.3	Features: 3495607: DeviceClass.device_name_factory is missing Bug fixes: 3103588: documentation of PyTango.Attribute.Group 3458336: Problem with pytango 7.2.2 3463377: PyTango memory leak in read encoded attribute 3487930: [pytango] wrong python dependency 3511509: Attribute.set_value_date_quality for encoded does not work 3514457: [pytango] TANGO_HOST multi-host support 3520739: command_history(…) in PyTango
7.2.2	Features: 3305251: DS dynamic attributes discards some Attr properties 3365792: DeviceProxy.<cmd_name> could be documented 3386079: add support for ipython 0.11 3437654: throw python exception as tango exception 3447477: spock profile installation Bug fixes: 3372371: write attribute of DevEncoded doesn’t work 3374026: [pytango] pyflakes warning 3404771: PyTango.MultiAttribute.get_attribute_list missing 3405580: PyTango.MultiClassAttribute missing
7.2.1	SKIPPED
7.2.0	Features: 3286678: Add missing EncodedAttribute JPEG methods
7.1.6	Bug fixes: 7.1.5 distribution is missing some files
7.1.5	Bug fixes: 3284174: 7.1.4 does not build with gcc 4.5 and tango 7.2.6 3284265: [pytango][7.1.4] a few files without licence and copyright 3284318: copyleft vs copyright 3284434: [pytango][doc] few ERROR during the doc generation 3284435: [pytango][doc] few warning during the doc generation 3284440: [pytango][spock] the profile can’t be installed 3285185: PyTango Device Server does not load Class Properties values 3286055: PyTango 7.1.x DS using Tango C++ 7.2.x seg faults on exit
7.1.4	Features: 3274309: Generic Callback for events Bug fixes: 3011775: Seg Faults due to removed dynamic attributes 3105169: PyTango 7.1.3 does not compile with Tango 7.2.X 3107243: spock profile does not work with python 2.5 3124427: PyTango.WAttribute.set_max_value() changes min value 3170399: Missing documentation about is_<attr>_allowed method 3189082: Missing get_properties() for Attribute class 3196068: delete_device() not called after server_admin.Kill() 3257286: Binding crashes when reading a WRITE string attribute 3267628: DP.read_attribute(, extract=List/tuple) write value is wrong 3274262: Database.is_multi_tango_host missing 3274319: EncodedAttribute is missing in PyTango (<= 7.1.3) 3277269: read_attribute(DevEncoded) is not numpy as expected 3278946: DeviceAttribute copy constructor is not working Documentation: Added The Utilities API chapter Added Encoded API chapter Improved Writing TANGO servers in Python chapter
7.1.3	Features: tango logging with print statement tango logging with decorators from sourceforge: 3060380: ApiUtil should be exported to PyTango Bug fixes: added licence header to all source code files spock didn’t work without TANGO_HOST env. variable (it didn’t recognize tangorc) spock should give a proper message if it tries to be initialized outside ipython 3048798: licence issue GPL != LGPL 3073378: DeviceImpl.signal_handler raising exception crashes DS 3088031: Python DS unable to read DevVarBooleanArray property 3102776: PyTango 7.1.2 does not work with python 2.4 & boost 1.33.0 3102778: Fix compilation warnings in linux
7.1.2	Features: 2995964: Dynamic device creation 3010399: The DeviceClass.get_device_list that exists in C++ is missing 3023686: Missing DeviceProxy.<attribute name> 3025396: DeviceImpl is missing some CORBA methods 3032005: IPython extension for PyTango 3033476: Make client objects pickable 3039902: PyTango.Util.add_class would be useful Bug fixes: 2975940: DS command with DevVarCharArray return type fails 3000467: DeviceProxy.unlock is LOCKING instead of unlocking! 3010395: Util.get_device_* methods don’t work 3010425: Database.dev_name does not work 3016949: command_inout_asynch callback does not work 3020300: PyTango does not compile with gcc 4.1.x 3030399: Database put(delete)_attribute_alias generates segfault
7.1.1	Features: Improved setup script Interfaced with PyPI Cleaned build script warnings due to unclean python C++ macro definitions 2985993: PyTango numpy command support 2971217: PyTango.GroupAttrReplyList slicing Bug fixes: 2983299: Database.put_property() deletes the property 2953689: can not write_attribute scalar/spectrum/image 2953030: PyTango doc installation
7.1.0	Features: 2908176: read_*, write_* and is_*_allowed() methods can now be defined 2941036: TimeVal conversion to time and datetime added str representation on Attr, Attribute, DeviceImpl and DeviceClass Bug fixes: 2903755: get_device_properties() bug reading DevString properties 2909927: PyTango.Group.read_attribute() return values 2914194: DevEncoded does not work 2916397: PyTango.DeviceAttribute copy constructor does not work 2936173: PyTango.Group.read_attributes() fails 2949099: Missing PyTango.Except.print_error_stack
7.1.0rc1	Features: v = image_attribute.get_write_value() returns square sequences (arrays of arrays, or numpy objects) now instead of flat lists. Also for spectrum attributes a numpy is returned by default now instead. image_attribute.set_value(v) accepts numpy arrays now or square sequences instead of just flat lists. So, dim_x and dim_y are useless now. Also the numpy path is faster. new enum AttrSerialModel Attribute new methods: set(get)_attr_serial_model, set_change_event, set_archive_event, is_change_event, is_check_change_event, is_archive_criteria, is_check_archive_criteria, remove_configuration added support for numpy scalars in tango operations like write_attribute (ex: now a DEV_LONG attribute can receive a numpy.int32 argument in a write_attribute method call) Bug fixes: DeviceImpl.set_value for scalar attributes DeviceImpl.push_***_event server commands with DevVar***StringArray as parameter or as return type in windows,a bug in PyTango.Util prevented servers from starting up DeviceImpl.get_device_properties for string properties assigns only first character of string to object member instead of entire string added missing methods to Util exported SubDevDiag class error in read/events of attributes of type DevBoolean READ_WRITE error in automatic unsubscribe events of DeviceProxy when the object disapears (happens only on some compilers with some optimization flags) fix possible bug when comparing attribute names in DeviceProxy pretty print of DevFailed -> fix deprecation warning in python 2.6 device class properties where not properly fetched when there is no property value defined memory leak when converting DevFailed exceptions from C++ to python python device server file without extension does not start Documentation: Improved FAQ Improved compilation chapter Improved migration information